Typology
Civic & institutional building
Bangkok
Architecture and built heritage
Civic & institutional building
Bangkok (Bang Rak)
Embassy of France
On the banks of the Chao Phraya, in Bang Rak, a former customs house that became a consulate, then a legation and finally an embassy tells the story of more than a century and a half of relations between France and Siam.
Architecture and built heritage
Civic & institutional building
Bangkok (Bang Rak)
Central Post Office
In Bang Rak, Bangkok’s former main post office, built in the late 1930s in the modern idiom favoured by the People’s Party, still houses a postal counter and is now home to a centre devoted to design.